... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 26) December 1993 Last| Contents| Next Issue 26 Crozier country Free Agent: the unseen war 1941-1991 Brian Crozier HarperCollins, London, 1993 This is a very interesting book which greatly adds to our knowledge of the clandestine shaping of British politics in the 1970s and 80s. It is also a book which, like Chapman Pincher's Inside Story, will repay repeated re-reading. But amidst all the new material a surprising amount of these putative 'unseen' activities have already been identified. It confirms that, from the mid-1970s the spook-wise British left-- the line which begins with the Leveller, the State Research collective and Time Out-- basically ...

... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Clandestine Caucus) Special Issue Last| Contents| Next The Clandestine Caucus The Crozier operations Running through much of this activity in the 1970s was Brian Crozier who had been warning about the rise of the British Left since the late 1960s. Crozier takes us back to the CIA operation the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) discussed in chapter five. The CIA control of the CCF and the magazine Encounter began to be threatened with exposure in 1963 when, reviewing an anthology from the magazine, Conor Cruise O'Brien wrote that 'Encounter's first loyalty is to America'; and an editorial in the Sunday Telegraph referred to a secret and regular subvention to Encounter from ...

... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 17) November 1988 Last| Contents| Next Issue 17 Brian Crozier, the Pinay Circle and James Goldsmith In Lobster 11 we included a little appendix on 'the Pinay Circle'. Lobster 11 was done at full-tilt, researched, written and produced in about 4 months, and there were a number of bits and pieces we didn't evaluate which went undigested into the appendices. One was this Pinay Circle. At the time all we had was a couple of references to it, status unknown. But it looked interesting. Since then we have made a couple of discoveries. One was the text reproduced below. This is one of a handful ...

... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 33) Summer 1997 Last| Contents| Next Issue 33 The KGB Lawsuits Brian Crozier Foreword by Sir James Goldsmith The Claridge Press, London, 1995, £12.95 One of the odd things about the James Goldsmith Referendum Party gambit in the recent election is the way the mass media collectively chose not to refer back to the last great Goldsmith campaign- his hunt for the Red Menace in the late 1970s.(1) Then as now Goldsmith saw himself as the saviour of the nation and put his money where his mouth was.(2) He funded some of Brian Crozier's operations, created Now! magazine, giving a platform to ...

... since and expanded 2012 the war Robin Ramsay Part 1: Clearing the ground: the unions, socialism and the state U.S. influence after the war Post-war: private sector propaganda begins to regroup Common Cause and IRIS Part 2 Atlantic Crossings Anti-communism as a profession: The Information Research Department The subversion hunters and the social democrats in the 1970s The Crozier operations Was there a 'communist threat'? Books and articles cited The Clandestine Caucus Anti-socialist campaigns and operations in the British labour movement since the war. Robin Ramsay 1996/slightly amended and expanded 2012. Part 1 Clearing the ground: the unions, socialism and the state A surprising number of Labour Party members believe that it was once ...

... relations. 67. The Social Democratic Alliance S tephen Haseler and Douglas Eden were founding members of the SDA and then the Social Democratic Party (SDP). Haseler had a considerable Atlanticist role before and during the life of the SDP, itself largely formulated along a US model.1 Haseler formed the SDA in 1975 with the distanced help of Brian Crozier, with the intention of drawing votes from the Labour Party up to the 1983 election. In a letter to The Times, Crozier alluded to his previous attempt at the creation of an anti- Labour party backed by covert operatives: 'Anthony Cavendish claims that the Democratic party, which he co-founded with the late Desmond Donnelly and others, ...

... and recently ISC editorial consultant. CLUTTERBUCK Richard: Expert on counter-insurgency: WW2 served in Western desert and Italy: Palestine 1947, Malaya 1956, Singapore 1966: instructor at British and US Army staff colleges: chief army instructor, Royal College of Defence Studies (1971-72): lecturer in politics, Exeter University: author: ISC Council. CROZIER Brian Rossiter: Although Crozier has always denied his connections to intelligence organisations it has been accepted in a number of publications that Crozier is some sort of intelligence asset both for MI6 and the CIA. It is probable that he was recruited either in the war when it was quite normal practise to recruit journalists for propaganda purposes- 1936 Journalist ...

... G know this?' Mr G defected in 1985, around the time of Lobster 6, and it seems very unlikely to me that the KGB would have come across something as piffling as the then Lobster. I'm flattered that Mr G has heard of Lobster but the KGB bit was just a little smear from Mr G's current sponsors. Crozier gets first bite The present burst of G-exploitation false-started in 1993 with Brian Crozier's memoir, Free Agent. On p. 115 he named Labour MPs or former MPs Stan Newens, Jo Richardson, Joan Lestor, Frank Allaun and Joan Maynard as 'confidential contacts' of the Soviet embassy and 'fellow travelling MPs'. Crozier had been told of ...

... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 10) January 1986 Last| Contents| Next Issue 10 Publications The Andropov Deception John Rossiter (Sherwood Press, London 1984) 'John Rossiter' is Brian Crozier, long-time asset of British and American intelligence agencies. (see Times 29 October 1984), and this is quite the worst- and worst-written- thriller I've read (even worse than The Spike). Rather like The Spike, the Andropov Deception is supposed to be a kind of roman 'a clef, revealing, in fictional form, information the author is unable or unwilling to reveal overtly. In this instance, from what I picked up from a nose-holding skim, Crozier is ...

... spotting and a bit of propagandising on behalf of 'moderate' trade union leaders. The fifth organisation was the Institute for the Study of Conflict (ISC), at that point only 18 months from its formal registration as a charity (sic). (11) ISC's inclusion in this grouping is less surprising than it might look. Brian Crozier (B ), ISC's founder, had established links with the British domestic anti-union, anti-left organisations in the 1960s. He edited the 1970 anthology We Will Bury You which included pieces by David Williams (editor of Common Cause journal) and Harry Welton (publicity director of the Economic League). (12) ISC's original founding members ...